Chris Fourmont

The media is changing. 20 years ago, everyone watched their news on TV; now it’s YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. 10 years ago, everyone read their news on Facebook; now it’s newsletters and X. Change happens slowly — then all at once. Artificial Intelligence round-ups are already taking over inboxes, which is likely to change email in major ways we don’t yet understand. Google, Yahoo, Outlook, Hotmail, Comcast — they all care more about the newest technology, and the profits they can reap from them, than ensuring our newsletter reaches you reliably. So we are building a new product we think our audience will love, and integrating an insurance plan for the future: A free text message service. We test-ran this idea a few weeks ago with over 700 readers who signed up (if that was you, then you do not need to sign up again), and the response was fantastic. It opened up a really fun way to deliver analysis, thoughts, and updates directly from the team. It also gave us an opportunity to share behind the scenes updates and solicit reader feedback on the things we were considering covering. Our small sample group gave rave reviews — so we decided making it permanent could achieve two things at once: 1) Build a new content offering people really love without cluttering your inbox, and 2) Create an insurance policy for the future. Ground rules: We'll never share your phone number with any third party of any kind, we'll never send you marketing material, we'll rarely text you more than once a day (and never will if you only opt into one text a day). And the content will be awesome. Sign up link below 👇👇

The White House has placed a photo of an auto-pen signature instead of a portrait of former President Biden on the “Presidential Walk of Fame”